Ladder of Monks and Twelve Meditations
Ladder of Monks and Twelve Meditations
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Paperback / softback
£15.99
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780879077488
Number of Pages: 138
Published: 01/11/1981
Width: 14 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
'My thoughts on the spiritual exercises proper to cloistered monks'; the ninth prior of La Grande Chartreuse ( '1180) articulates the monastic contemplative tradition in distinctively western terms.
'...reading, meditation, prayer and contemplation. These make a ladder for monks by which they are lifted up from earth to heaven. It has few rungs, yet its length is immense and wonderful, for its lower end rests upon the earth, but its top pierces the clouds and seeks heavenly secrets.'
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
The Life and Writings of Guigo II 3
The Scala Claustralium 6
History and Manuscript Tradition 6
The Ladder of Monks 11
Doctrine and Sources 11
The Middle English Version: A Ladder of Four Rungs 25
The Meditations 37
History and Manuscript Tradition 37
Doctrine and Sources 39
The Meditation on the Magnificat 56
The Ladder of Monks
A Letter on the Contemplative Life 65
Twelve Meditations 87
